Connecticut western news., 1887-02-23
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1u0 poSG hOlSGOlu COWS pIOuuCC HUH 12,O00 to 18,000 pounds of milk every year.
 New York City drinks 6,O0O,OOO bar rels of beer every year at a cost of S39,- 100000.
 Cars warmed lov the steam from the locomotives will soon be feature of railroading.
 Mrs. H. M. Baldwin of Litchfeld, it is said, will rebuild the Mansion House at that place.
 According to the Bridgeport Standard that city has several cases of peculiar disease. It consists of extraordinary and unparalleled cases of change of col or in the human skin, whites turning black and blacks turning white.
 A little girl baby in Granby attracts considerable attention. It is now seven weeks old, and weighs B pounds. At birth it weighed 3 pounds, but when one week had passed over it's tiny head it only tipped the scales at 2 lbs. A finger ring can be worn on it's little arm at the shoulder.
 Mrs. Frances Brown, lady we'll known for her benevolence, has made arrangements to have S70O tower clock placed in the tower of the Second church, Winsted. The clock will be manufactured by the Seth Thomas Clock Co.,, Thomaston. n.-Ne,o Hurtfoa'd Tribune.
 The Roxbury correspondent of the Woodbury Reporter says: The She paug R. k. Go. has just paid dividend of 6 per cent, A. l.. Hodge receiving $3O0 The railroad has also changed it's name to the Housatonic, Litchfeld and Northern Extension R. R. The 2nd mortgage bonds have gone into the hands of the first mortgage bondhold- CTS. ..... E. Mower is preparing to complete his inclined railway to the Station. He has contract to furnish 1900 car loads of stone from his quarry the coming season. A force of 160 men will be employed.
 She (to young poet )-"How much do you get for your poems, Charley?" Charley (with pride )-"From $2 to $5. , She-"Well, isn't that very little? I see that Sir Walter Scott got $1O,OOO for one of his" Cbarley-"Yes; but you see writing poetry isn't the business it used to be. There's too much com petition. "-Ne,v Fork Sun. It is we'll established truth that an ounce of keep your mouth shut is bet ter than pound of explanation after you have said it.-Ec.
 A Duchess county, N. Y, man now living in Dakota has invented snow yacht, which will accommodate twenty persons, and make speed of twenty miles an hour. All the victims of the Hartford, Vt., railroad catastrophe have been identi- fed. The two remaining bodies were those of Peter McLeon of Acton, P. O., and D. Maigret, notary public of Show inigan, P. Q.
 George Hummel, of Seymour, fell on the ice Thursday and broke his arm. This makes the fourth person in the town who had limbs broken during the week.
 A compositor in the United States is supposed to have died violent death on the day before Christmas. The edi- tor wrote ''Old Gifts in New Lights, , and it appeared in print sOld Girls in New Tights. The compositor is SUD- posed to have mistaken the editorial for | an article on the ballet.-The Monitor. Mary Baker, the famous fasting girl l of White county, Ind, is recovering. She will live and probably regain her strength. On the 10th inst, after fast of 1O9 days, it was found that water would stay on her stomach; stimulants were added in mild degrees, and the pa- tient has since mended rapidly. The Etruria, which arrived at New York Saturday, made the trip from Liv- erpool in 6 days, 19 hours and AZ min | utes, which the Cunard agent claim ms is the quickest time on record. Copper, that cost from 60 to 75 cents pound in the time of our civil war. now sells for 14.-Ne,o Fork He1.l,zd Where? Where? The copper companies have been selling millions of pounds for II cents, and would like to know where they can get 14.-Sprimq1fezd Repubh- cd1.
 The "Pilgrim's Progress" has been re- produced in Japanese, and illustrated by native artist.
 Twenty five persons have joined the M. D. Church. at Hunter, Greene coun- ty, N. Y., on probation.
 Michael Fahey died of smallpox at the town farm in Waterbury, Conn, last Saturday. The 80 inmates have been vaccinated and quarantlned.
 On Friday last the works of the Good year rubber company of Naugatuck shut down indefinitely. They are reported to have $1,50O,00O worth of finished stock on hand.
 The steamship Great Eastern was sold at auction at Liverpool Thursday for $13O, GOO